Olla podrida, a periodical work, complete in forty-four numbers. The second edition
London: printed by J, Nichols and sold by C. Dilly and C.S. Rann, 1788. 8vo, pp. [4], xi, [1], 13-443; contemporary tree calf, red morocco label on spine, edges stained blue; joints cracked, else very good. Projected and edited by Thomas Monro, who contributed a number of articles, it includes bibliographical and biographical notes, including one by Bishop Horne, of Norwich (no. 13) on the life and character of Samuel Johnson. Horne was an acquaintance of Johnson "and a rival etymologist. In this essay he undertook to show that Johnson's biographers had not done the great man any disservice in plainly exposing his peculiarities" (Sullivan). Francis Grose, the antiquarian, contributed 20 numbers, and Monro himself also twenty. Graham, English Literary Periodicals, pp. 137-38; Sullivan, British Literary Magazines, p. 265. Item #23581
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